Creating a Report

Note: This article applies to GPM v12.1.0 and later. 

Goliath Performance Monitor includes many report templates so you can begin to analyze and share data quickly. Beginning with version 11.9.0, all reports can be created from a single, streamlined report dialog that guides you through the process of selecting the report template, defining options and scheduling your report. The steps for creating a report using this dialog are described below.

Creating a Report

1. From the Report page, click  in the top right corner of the page to open the Report Dialog.
   
   
2. Select the report template to use and click Next. Based on the template selected you will have a few different options available in the step that follows.
   
   
   
   Performance Monitoring Reports let you select from a list of Windows performance counters, or click Custom to select your own counters to report on. Performance counters are collected by default every 5 minutes (Refer to the Settings page to change the collection period if needed). See below for a description of each Performance Monitoring report template.
   
   Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops Reports will prompt you to select the default columns to display and a few report-specific display options based on the data collected. See below for a description of each Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops report template.
   
   Alert & Log Analysis Reports present specific options based on the report type related to the alert or log details in the report. See below for a description of each Alert & Log Analysis report template.
   
   VMware Horizon present specific options based on the report type related to the alert or log details in the report. See below for a description of each VMware Horizon report template.
   
   
3. After selecting a template and the required report options, select the devices or groups to report on. Depending on the report type, devices or groups only may be available for selection.
   
   
   
   Check Select All Applicable Devices to automatically select only those devices that apply to the specific report template. For example, if you selected a Citrix XenApp report, only Citrix XenApp Servers will be included in the device selection each time the report runs
   
   Depending on the report, typically Alert & Log Analysis reports, a lot of information may be included for each selected device. You can limit the amount of data to display for each device using the Max Report/Lines Server option.
   
   After selecting the devices or groups to include, click Next.
   
   
4. Next, give the report a name and description and optionally assign a Report Owner. The report owner is displayed on the main report page to help you organize and view your available reports and also allows you to customize which reports individual users can see and access. Administrator GPM users can see and access all reports regardless of the Report Owner.
   
   
   
   Click Next.
   
   
   
5. At the next step you will define your sharing options. Reports can be emailed or exported each time they are run. You can select to send the report as a PDF or CSV file. For reports to be emailed, SMTP settings must be configured. Please note, your SMTP Server most likely has a maximum attachment size threshold configured. We've seen where PDF attachments larger then 25-40MB can be blocked by the SMTP Server. If this is applicable to you, we recommend using the CSV email attachment option instead or export the PDF to a fileshare location.
   
   
   
   Click Next.
   
   
6. Finally, select how often to run the report and the timeframe to include each time the report runs.
   
   
   
   For example, to run a weekly report that includes the last week of data each time, you would select to run the report every Friday at 5pm and include the last 5 days. If you wanted to run the report on Sunday night, you could include the last 7 days and then exclude Saturday and Sunday using the options available.
   
   You also have the option to create a report without a schedule by selecting On Demand. This lets you run the report anytime you need using the template and options selected.
   
   
   
7. Click Done to finish creating the report. The new report is displayed in the main report table.

Note on creating reports and security permissions

When creating a report, the "report creator" is the current user. The report is only able to retrieve data relating to objects to which the report creator has access.

When security is disabled within GPM, the current user is "System" (not a real user account and only valid if security is disabled).

If a user creates a report with security is disabled in GPM (meaning the report creator is "System"), then security is enabled later, they will need to recreate those reports. This can be done quickly using the individual report context menu Copy option.

Report Template Descriptions

The next few sections define the available report templates in detail.

Performance Monitoring Reports

The Performance Monitoring reports (Previously known as CounterWatch reports) allow you to report on Windows performance counter data. You can choose from templates that have been pre-configured to collect specific counters, or you can use the Custom option to build your own report and select your own specific Windows counters.

Note: Performance counters are collected by default every five minutes once the report is created. This can be changed by going to the Report Settings dialog of the Settings page.

The following templates are included out-of-the-box

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop Reports 

The following report templates are available for Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops. For additional information refer to the Citrix reports knowledge base article.

Alert & Log Analysis Reports

The Alert & Log analysis report templates let you create reports to review alerts or logs over specified time periods as well as basic server configuration and availability information.

VMware Horizon Reports 

The following report templates are available for VMware Horizon.